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Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Vladi­mir Putin’s annexation of Crimea is a direct challenge and long-term threat to the post-World War II international order for...

Intelligence officers live by a time-honored credo: When in doubt, admit nothing, deny everything, make counter-accusations. It was in that spirit that Vladi­mir Putin, the quondam KGB man who rules Russia, addressed his nation and the world Tuesday on the annexation of Crimea....

Vladimir Putin’s grab of Crimea has exposed the paradoxes in U.S. attitudes toward foreign policy. Congress has been unusually united in condemning the Russian leader’s aggression and calling for his isolation. His belligerent offensive has been denounced by such...

IT’S BEEN nearly a year since Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein exposed a shocking scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, involving a virtual takeover of the facility by a violent inmate gang and corrupt correctional officers. The charges included massive...

DURING THE urban crime crisis of decades ago, federal and state governments cracked down on crime. Tough measures, such as harsh sentencing laws, led to an eight-fold increase in the federal prison population since 1980. These laws helped lower crime rates, but the increase in...

IT’S EASY to conclude that Vladi­mir Putin’s passionate defense of Russia’s takeover of Crimea “just didn’t jibe with reality,” as Secretary of State John F. Kerry put it. In a speech on Tuesday, the Russian ruler repeated mendacious charges that the...